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Elysium Star 2 Successfully Launched Into Earth Orbit

Elysium Star 2 memorial spacecraft is now orbiting the Earth! On Monday, December 3rd at 10:34 a.m. PST, SpaceX successfully launched Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express to a low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Carrying Elysium Star 2 as well as 63 other payloads, this mission represented […]

Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander will be onboard a ULA launch vehicle

Astrobotic, Elysium Space’s partner for the Lunar Memorial service, is announcing today that its Peregrine Lunar Lander will be onboard a ULA launch vehicle in 2019, during the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Read Astrobotic Press Release Elysium Space previously announced a contract with Astrobotic Technology to deliver Elysium’s ash capsules to the lunar surface. […]

Sign Up For Free Elysium Space Membership

We are pleased to announce that we launched our free membership program. If you wish to have a Celestial Service for yourself upon your passing (i.e. our existing Shooting Star Memorial, or upcoming Lunar and Milky Way Memorials), the best option is to become an Elysium Space member. Your loved ones will raise their eyes […]

Elysium Space Now Accepting International Reservations

After receiving increasing inquiries from all over the world (e.g. UK, Australia, India, Honk Kong), we are pleased to announce that Elysium Space is now accepting all international reservations. For international participants, the procedure is the same except that the shipping fees include the delivery of your kit only and we provide instructions to ship […]

Introducing Our Multichannel Customer Service

Communication with the families we serve is very important to us and we are pleased to announce that our multichannel customer service is now operational. Memorial spaceflight participants and inquiring customers can now contact us live, Monday through Friday from 8AM to 5PM PST, using our toll-free phone number 1-800-815-9650 or our Web Chat. As […]

2014 NewSpace Business Plan Competition Finalists Announced

The NewSpace Business Plan Competition, in collaboration with its sponsors (The Space Frontier Foundation, ATK, and Heinlein Prize Trust) are excited to announce the competitors for this years’ unique program, the 2014 Lightning Pitch Competition. Competitors are listed below, in alphabetical order. This years’ Lightning Pitch Competition is a novel format, somewhere between an “Elevator […]

Introducing the Elysium Space Columbarium

On Earth, a columbarium is a place offering multiple niches for the respectful storage of cremation urns. Fine examples of these are the columbaria in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, Golders Green Crematorium in London, or the architecturally renowned Columbarium of San Francisco, where Elysium Space is based. As the time has come to lift […]

New website, blog and launch schedule

All the Elysium Space team has been extremely busy since we launched our service last year in the United States and Japan. It has been our greatest pleasure to receive a fantastic feedback from all over the world. More than ever, we are dedicated to offer the most meaningful celestial services, which are within reach […]